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This is a list of Old West gunfights.Gunfights have left a lasting impression on American frontier history; many were retold and embellished by dime novels and magazines like Harper's Weekly during the late 19th and early 20th century.
The gunfight at the O.K. Corral pitted lawmen against members of a loosely organized group of cattle rustlers and horse thieves called the Cowboys on October 26, 1881. While lasting less than a minute, the gunfight has been the subject of books and films into the 21st century.
A still from police body camera footage of a shootout between a suspect and sheriff's deputies in Volusia County, Florida in 2019. A shootout, also called a firefight, gunfight, or gun battle, is an armed confrontation entailing firearms between armed parties using guns, always entailing one or more intense disagreements between the involved parties.
Actual gunfights in the Old West were very rare, and when gunfights did occur, their causes varied. [9] Some were unpremeditated fights incited by strong emotions, while others were the results of longstanding feuds, or were between criminals and law enforcement.
The Gunfight at Hide Park, or the Newton Massacre, was the name given to an Old West gunfight that occurred on August 19, 1871, in Newton, Kansas, United States.While well publicized at the time, the shootout has received little historical attention despite resulting in a higher body count than the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral and the Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight of 1881.
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According to several sources, he engaged in several gunfights with would-be cattle thieves that left maybe five men dead before arriving in Kansas. Ken Bridges It was August 1871 that saw one of ...
The Battle of Stone Corral, also known as the Gunfight at Stone Corral, occurred in June 1893 and was the final shootout during the pursuit of the Sontag-Evans Gang. After months of searching and several previous encounters, a small posse under the command of Marshal George E. Gard ambushed John Sontag and Chris Evans at a corral near Visalia, California.